They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">the promise<n id="1" /> he made to Abraham,p> <p class="poetry">the promise he made by oath to Isaac!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.

<p class="bodytext">Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac.

You must go instead to my country and to my relatives<n id="1" /> to find<n id="2" /> a wife for my son Isaac.&#8221;p>

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;This is the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, &#8216;I will give it to your descendants.&#8217;<n id="1" /> I have let you see it,<n id="2" /> but you will not cross over there.&#8221;p>

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir,<n id="1" /> while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

I will say to a young woman, &#8216;Please lower your jar so I may drink.&#8217; May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, &#8216;Drink, and I&#8217;ll give your camels water too.&#8217;<n id="1" /> In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, &#8220;She is really<n id="1" /> your wife! Why did you say, &#8216;She is my sister&#8217;?&#8221; Isaac replied, &#8220;Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Joseph said to his brothers, &#8220;I am about to die. But God will surely come to you<n id="1" /> and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give<n id="2" /> to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.&#8221;

I will bring you to the land I swore to give<n id="1" /> to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob &#8211; and I will give it to you<n id="2" /> as a possession. I am the <sc>Lord!&#8217;sc>&#8221;p>

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, &#8216;I will multiply your descendants<n id="1" /> like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about<n id="2" /> I will give to your descendants,<n id="3" /> and they will inherit it forever.&#8217;&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go up<n id="1" /> from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath<n id="2" /> to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, &#8216;I will give it to your descendants.&#8217;<n id="3" />

&#8216;Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly,<n id="1" /> not<n id="2" /> one of the men twenty years old and upward<n id="3" /> who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give<n id="4" /> to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

Look! I have already given the land to you.<n id="1" /> Go, occupy the territory that I,<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, promised<n id="3" /> to give to your ancestors<n id="4" /> Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.&#8221;<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then when the <sc>Lordsc> your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you &#8211; a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness,<n id="1" /> that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the <sc>Lordsc> your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he<n id="2" /> made on oath to your ancestors,<n id="3" /> to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God,<n id="1" /> just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors<n id="2" /> Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

I also call on you<n id="1" /> to love the <sc>Lordsc> your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually<n id="2" /> in the land the <sc>Lordsc> promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.&#8221;p>